Here's a pic of Tom Baker in costume.
That's the scarf the guy in college had! I'm glad I remembered it correctly.
Don't kill anyone if you don't have to. We're here to make a deal.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Steph L. - Apr 23, 2010 10:25:19 am PDT #24679 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Jessica - Apr 23, 2010 10:25:52 am PDT #24680 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I had a Dr Who scarf in college. It was my mom's that she'd knit when she was in college. It was awesome.
Kathy A - Apr 23, 2010 10:26:01 am PDT #24681 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
But I had no idea it was still a program until people here mentioned it.
Started the weekend after JFK's assasination on BBC, played through 1989, then was brought back in 2005 not as a reboot (like Battlestar Galactica), but as a continuation of the classic series. Oh, and there was a Fox TV-movie in 1996 that has been incorporated into the show's backstory, but it really sucked.
Amy - Apr 23, 2010 10:26:03 am PDT #24682 of 30001
Because books.
Good god, Suzi. Colorado is crazy! Poor kid.
Here's a pic of Tom Baker in costume.
Yeah, that's the one. Didn't that iteration have a really woo-woo spiralling graphic in the opener, too? I know it sort of freaked me out for some reason.
I think you people are the only people I know who watch it. Of course, you people are the majority of people I know, so.
This.
Scrappy - Apr 23, 2010 10:27:45 am PDT #24683 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I didn't watch the show, but caught end bits of it as it came on right before Monty Python. I thought Tom Baker was awfully cute. Something about the combination of the hangdog expression and the curly hair and insane scarf was really charming.
Amy - Apr 23, 2010 10:28:31 am PDT #24684 of 30001
Because books.
caught end bits of it as it came on right before Monty Python
Yes! That's the only reason I ever saw it.
§ ita § - Apr 23, 2010 10:29:02 am PDT #24685 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Since I grew up in the UK, I have to know who Doctor Who is. I forget most of you people are foreigners.
Why would anyone spell my name iTa? Ita I get. I hate it, but I get it. iTa? You're just being difficult.
I'm drinking Mexican Coca Cola with lunch. It still gives me the squeaky teeth feeling that I don't like about Coke. I've been drinking way too much soda recently, even though most of it is purportedly-natural Izze.
Beverly - Apr 23, 2010 10:30:18 am PDT #24686 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
and I am like, dud, you made it difficult-
Epically apropos typo
Frankenbuddha - Apr 23, 2010 10:36:36 am PDT #24687 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Oh, and there was a Fox TV-movie in 1996 that has been incorporated into the show's backstory, but it really sucked.
Poor Paul McGann. Such a great choice for the role, but so the wrong version to showcase him.
amych - Apr 23, 2010 10:37:59 am PDT #24688 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Didn't that iteration have a really woo-woo spiralling graphic in the opener, too?
Tom Baker credits start at about 2:50 in this video: [link]
OMG I can't believe I'm using the complete set of Doctor Who credits as reference material.
Anyway, most of the sequences have done spirally trippy tunnel things (I, err, think it's supposed to represent time travel or something), but you can totally see the state of special effects at any given time. The current show has way more budget than some of the earlier iterations, and correspondingly less effects consisting of turning the screen funny colors and spinning the image around. (Also less costuming with bubble wrap and spray paint).